The same circular high platform with six circular pillars on it.
In the middle of the circle formed by the pillars, on the ground carved with complicated patterns, a white light suddenly lit up, and then the light shone brightly.
Finally, a dazzling white light flashed, and six people appeared on the high platform.
Mammy and Madam looked calm, while Zhao Yue'er and the two maids looked pale. Caiyun rushed out in a hurry and vomited into a pool of water.
Yang Zhen looked nervous, and her hands unconsciously pressed somewhere in her arms. The hard thing was just right there, and she couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
What a false alarm!
Then an idea flashed through his mind, and he seemed to think of something, but he couldn't grasp it.
Only then did he raise his head and look around, only to see his grandma looking at him in surprise.
"Is this your first time sitting in a teleportation array?" She pointed at a few girls: "Look at them, it's not their first time sitting in a teleportation array, they all look like this. Why are you okay?"
I have to drill into a black hole every night. Can they compare? Yang Zhen thought in her heart, but she said nonsense: "I am a boy, I have well-developed limbs."
"Is it the reason for the body training technique?" Grandma was puzzled.
At this time, the two family monks on duty in the hall came up to him: "I have seen the great elder and the general manager."
There are many high-status women in the old house, so naturally Mrs. Qin cannot be called madam like she is in the county. She is the general manager of the county, and people here call her by her position.
Grandma and Mrs. Qin nodded and led a few people out of the hall.
I saw a bustling market outside, with restaurants, shops, academies, and a large square with a radius of 100 feet, on which a group of women in gauze danced. The goose-feather-like snow fluttered down and disappeared before it even fell on them. There were many pedestrians on the street, some wearing dark clothes and large fur coats, and some wearing short shirts, walking calmly in the snow.
Yang Zhen saw it interestingly, and Caiyun next to her introduced it: "This is the family's residence, and we named it Zhao Town. This place is on the mountainside of Chaori Peak, and is inhabited by members of our Zhao family."
Chaori Peak is where the ancestral home of the Zhao family in Changshan is located. The mountain is two thousand feet high. It is said that standing on the top of the peak, you can see the earliest sunlight in Shuyang County every day. There is a third-level high-grade spiritual vein in the mountain, which is the place with the most abundant spiritual energy in the entire Zhuyang County.
Caiyun has recovered from the discomfort just now and is back to her lively self, talking and laughing. She then pointed to the group of dancers and said: "They are all female nuns who are attached to the family. During the holidays these days, the family invited them to come here to help everyone and add some excitement."
Yang Zhen thought of the Jin family and secretly lamented the difficulty of being a casual cultivator. She lost interest in watching the excitement and followed them towards the square.
There was an old man standing there with several servants in the square, and the snowflakes in the sky had no effect on them. Seeing Mammy and others approaching, the old man perked up and hurriedly came over to greet them.
"Zhao Youting has met the eldest elder." He saluted respectfully, and after finishing, he cupped his hands towards Qin: "I have met Mrs. Qin."
Everyone exchanged pleasantries. This Zhao Youting is an elder in charge of family affairs, and he is in the middle stage of foundation building. Waiting in the square at this time is to welcome everyone who has returned from the county town.
At this moment, a charming female voice not far away was heard: "Sister Wan, long time no see, Sisi misses you so much."
Yang Zhen looked around and saw a gorgeous woman in a bright red dress rushing over with a gust of wind, stretching out her arms to hug Qin Wan.
Qin Wan calmly stepped aside and responded lightly: "Hello, Feng Sisi!"
Feng Sisi hugged him empty-handed, but she was not annoyed. She just covered her mouth and looked surprised: "I haven't seen you for half a year. Sister Wan, your cultivation has improved so fast. Sisi is definitely no match for you now. I'm so envious. You have such good spiritual veins in the county, but the energy allows you to practice. Sister Wan, you are such a blessed person! Hey, why didn't I give birth to a good daughter? "
"Mom——" A voice of dissatisfaction sounded, and a little girl also wearing a red dress shouted from behind: "Am I so disliked by you?"
This girl looks to be about the same age as Zhao Yue'er, with fair skin and delicate face.
"Ouch, mom said the wrong thing, mom likes Ying'er the most." Feng Sisi grabbed the little girl with some embarrassment and pulled her in front of Zhao Yue'er: "Don't you keep asking to see your sister Yue'er? ? See you now, right?"
The girl immediately smiled: "Sister Yue'er, I miss you so much!"
After saying that, he also stretched out his hands to hug Zhao Yue'er. The mother and daughter really talk, move, and even look exactly the same.
Zhao Yue'er didn't give any face, and opened the stretched out hand: "Zhao Ying, you and I are not good friends, there is no need for you to miss me!"
It turns out that this girl is Zhao Ying! Yang Zhen suddenly understood.
Zhao Ying didn't look angry either. Her eyes moved around and she quickly noticed Yang Zhen standing beside her.
"You are the Yang Shitou who is very good at telling stories, right? You are quite good-looking."
Yang Zhen responded with a "hmm".
Zhao Ying's face suddenly changed: "You servant! This lady asked you a question, and you just answered me like this? Kneel down!"
Kneel down? Yang Zhen was angry. Since his time travel, except for the time when he knelt down to worship the ancestors of the Yang family, and when he knelt down to worship the Qin family when he recognized his adoptive mother, no one has ever asked him to kneel down again. This little girl made him kneel down as soon as they met, so arrogant?
Yang Zhen looked at her coldly and ignored her.
"Turns out he is an uneducated slave!" Zhao Ying became even more angry. She whipped out a whip from her waist and swung it at Yang Zhen.
"Zhao Ying!" Yang Zhen was thinking about whether to dodge or grab the whip, but she saw Zhao Yue'er also scolded angrily, stretched out her hand and punched Zhao Ying in the heart. She often fights with Yang Zhen and has accumulated a lot of experience. She knows that attacking the enemy must save it.
Zhao Ying withdrew the whip, ducked sideways, and said with a smile: "Sister Yue'er, I haven't seen you for more than half a year, and you have made a lot of progress! I heard that you are often beaten by this slave until your nose is bruised and your face is swollen, is that right?"
"You just have a bruised nose and a swollen face!" Zhao Yue'er immediately blushed: "I win every time."
"Pfft!" Zhao Ying laughed out loud: "Don't hide it, everyone in our old house knows it! If you feel that you can't do it, my sister will teach you a lesson to this ignorant slave. How about ?”
"That's enough!" Qin Wan's face turned pale as she shouted at the woman in red: "Feng Sisi, you really raised a good daughter, how dare you interfere in my family's affairs!"
"Who can let someone's family tradition be lax? Being a general manager is so prestigious that he can't even control his own servants, and his daughter even gave someone a nosebleed!" Feng Sisi responded in a neutral tone.
Qin Wan was so angry that she was shaking all over. She pointed at Feng Sisi's nose and was speechless for a long time.
"Let's go!" She pulled Zhao Yuer'er and stormed away.
The two maids quickly followed. Grandma sighed and pulled Yang Zhen away.
Zhao Youting looked at Feng Sisi and her daughter and saw sneers on both of their faces. He shook his head and ordered his men to continue waiting for the flying boat from the county while he chased after them. He had to personally arrange the residences of the Great Elder and the Qin family.
At this moment, there was a commotion in the square, but it was the county's flying boat that finally arrived. In the distant horizon, a flying boat is approaching quickly like an eagle soaring in the sky.
…
As an old man in the county, Jia Sheng has two vacations a year to visit relatives in Changshan, and he can carry the family's flying boat for free. In order to save every spiritual stone for his son's cultivation, he has returned to Changshan a total of forty times in the past twenty years, and has never paid a single copper coin for travel expenses.
Every time he went home in the past, he was excited and proud. He was proud that he had brought back a large amount of money and things. He watched his son take the money with joy, imagining that they turned into spiritual stones and finally his son's cultivation. . He felt great inner satisfaction.
But today, he felt extremely tired. When he returned home this time, the total amount of money he had in his body was less than ten gold coins, and he couldn't even exchange for a spiritual stone. He didn't know how to face his proud eldest son, how to explain to him.
The spaceship was getting closer and closer, and you could already see the old wife waiting there with their daughter in the square. He was even more ashamed, wishing that the spaceship would suddenly turn around and return to the county town.
…
In Zhao Town, there is a calligraphy and painting shop with a [Closed for Business] sign hanging at the door.
Zhao Yulian happily took away the sign, opened the door, and introduced Jia Sheng into the room. Her daughter was carrying a big package behind her, which should be the New Year's goods bought by the head of the family in the county town.
"Where is your elder brother? When will he come back?" she asked her daughter.
"Brother is practicing on the mountain. He said that he is almost at the end of Qi training, so he must practice quickly. He won't be back for a while."
"This kid only knows how to cultivate. His father didn't know how to go home early when he came back today." Zhao said angrily, but she was very proud of herself as a child who cultivated immortality.
Although she is only the daughter of a concubine of the Zhao family, Zhao Yulian also attended family school when she was a child, and she was pretty good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so she has now opened a calligraphy and painting shop, which specializes in bringing some high-quality products from the secular world. sell.
As a woman with considerable talent and reputation at the time, she would not have much regard for Jia Sheng, her husband, who was of low background and did not have much knowledge. In other words, he was decent-looking and hard-working.
But what she didn't expect was that after marrying Jia Sheng, she not only gave birth to a child with the qualifications to cultivate immortality, which greatly improved her status in the family. Jia Sheng was even more silent. He brought back a large amount of money from the county every year to support their mother and son, and also ensured their children's cultivation.
So now, she is more and more satisfied with her husband. When people reach old age, they are an old married couple and have no other thoughts. Life is pretty good now. The only thing I hope for is that the eldest son will improve his cultivation further.
Thinking of this, she happily opened her husband's package, rummaged through it, and curiously took out a few bunches of candied haws:
"Why did you still buy this? Our children are already grown!"
"This stuff contains spiritual energy and can be eaten by monks and mortals." Jia Sheng forced a smile: "Try it, it's quite sweet."
Affected by Yang Zhen, many people in the Zhao family now like to eat this candied haws. During this Chinese New Year, many people bought it for the current year.
Zhao didn't eat. She could tell that the boss was in a bad mood: "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"It's okay, I'm probably a little tired." Jia Sheng didn't know what to say.
At this time, the door creaked and a handsome young man strode in.
"Li'er, you're back!" Ms. Zhao shouted happily.
This young man is none other than their eldest son Zhao Li, a monk with four spiritual roots who is at the sixth level of Qi training. He said "Yeah", then looked at Jia Sheng, his voice was very urgent:
"Dad, how many spiritual stones did you bring back this time? I want to buy some elixirs and will use them soon. I feel like I will have a breakthrough soon!"
"Really?" Zhao Yulian said in surprise.
Zhao Li did not answer, but looked at his father eagerly.
Jia Sheng sighed and looked at his son. The corners of his mouth twitched a few times, but he made no sound.
"Master, what is Li'er asking you?" Ms. Zhao was a little flustered.
"How many are needed?" Jia Sheng asked.
"One bottle of Peiyuan Dan has fifteen spiritual stones. To be more confident, you need to prepare at least two bottles, totaling thirty spiritual stones." Zhao Li replied.
Peiyuan Dan has the effect of removing impurities from the body and clearing the meridians. It is a commonly used elixir for monks during the Qi training period to break through the realm.
Thirty spirit stones, which is three thousand silver coins. Jia Sheng calculated in his mind that if it was normal, he should be able to make two thousand in half a year. Plus the one thousand silver coins as compensation, it would be barely enough. But now...
He looked at his old wife: "Yulian, how much money does our family have now?"
Mrs. Zhao opened her mouth wide and seemed to understand. She said with a grimace: "Our family is just empty-handed, and all the extra money we have is given to Li'er's cultivation. Now the total money in the store is less than fifty gold coins. Keep expenses at a minimum, otherwise the store will not be able to open. Boss, what happened?"
Jia Sheng squatted down holding his head and sighed: "Li'er, dad is useless. Not only did he not make any money in the past six months, he also lost some money to the government."
Then, he checked the accounts of the house and found evidence that he had made false accounts, and asked him to pay a sum of money. Then the government implemented double-entry bookkeeping, and everything was discussed one by one.
"Now the two ledgers are compared. I haven't figured out the key points inside yet, so I don't dare mess around for the time being." He explained.
"Qin - Wan -" Zhao Li gritted his teeth: "She is a bitch who was born as a casual cultivator and has only reached the fifth level of qi training. She is not satisfied with being given a county manager. She even blocks my way. I..."
"Shut up! What else do you want? Don't forget who is standing behind me?" Jia Sheng scolded his son softly.
"I..." Zhao Li said bitterly, "I have to drive her away from the county!"
"Can you get rid of her? Her father-in-law is from Zifu, and her daughter is the most promising genius in the Zhao family in the past five hundred years to achieve the golden elixir! There is also a great elder who is always with her. Our family cannot afford to offend such a person Ah." Jia Sheng sighed: "If not, how could I bow to her obediently?"
"I heard that she and Feng Sisi had another quarrel today. Feng Sisi's father-in-law is a foundation-building elder and a direct descendant of ancestor Yuan Jun. She wants to drive away the Qin family more than you do! But what? Did she do it? It was just a verbal advantage."
As an old man who has been living in the Zhao family for decades, Jia Sheng knows all the grudges and grudges here, which is why he was soft when the Qin family was a little tougher.
Zhao Li was speechless. He was just an ordinary monk from the Zhao family with ordinary qualifications. How could he win over the Qin family? He just said something out of anger.
He suddenly remembered something: "Who did that double-entry accounting? It's impossible for Mrs. Qin to know this."
"It's a child named Yang Zhen." Jia Sheng also told some things he knew about Yang Zhen.
"Although this boy is only ten years old, he is very talented and is very favored by the elder. Don't try to influence him." He finally said.
This time, Zhao Li didn't listen to his father: "I can't deal with Mrs. Qin, so why can't I deal with a baby? Since he dares to come to our old house to celebrate the New Year, I won't let him go around without food."
After saying that, he didn't even eat, so he walked out the door. After walking a few steps, he came back, took two candied haws from his mother's hand, and then turned around and left.
"Where are you going?" His mother shouted, "Don't do anything!"
"I won't stand up for myself, I'll find a fool." He raised the candied haws in his hand and said proudly.
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